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Re: Zombie subprocesses
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Zombie subprocesses |
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Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:23:40 -0800 |
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On 11/23/2012 01:49 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> I recently discovered that emacs has a bunch of zombie subprocesses.
> A bit of experimenting reveals that if I run
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> (call-process "/bin/sleep" nil 0 nil "5")
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> then this returns immediately, as expected, but after 5 seconds, the
> subprocess becomes a zombie and never goes away.
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> Is this the intended behaviour, or a bug? Should I file a bug report?
It's a bug. Please file a bug report. Sigh, and I just put a change
into emacs-24 that may trigger the same bug. I'll try to look into
it later today, but I don't have easy access to OS X so this may
well require some help.
- Zombie subprocesses, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2012/11/23
- Re: Zombie subprocesses,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Ken Brown, 2012/11/23
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Chong Yidong, 2012/11/24
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/24
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2012/11/24
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/26
Re: Zombie subprocesses, James Cloos, 2012/11/24